Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...describing Harvard's 13-4 win over Princeton in yesterday's baseball story, the blank line following the sentence starting "Five Harvard batters" should have been filled in by this paragraph: "The Crimson scored in every inning except the second, although it didn't pull ahead for good until the fourth. Tied 3-3 entering the bottom of the fourth, senior catcher Bryan Brissette singled and stole second, going to third on a catcher' throwing error. Vankoski then tripled him home, and Bernhard drove Vankoski home with a single to make the score 5-3." We apologize for the error...
...most people, a momentary lapse of memory seems no more serious than getting the hiccups. But Los Angeles attorney Sally Weinper shudders every time she misplaces a file or draws a mental blank on a fine point of law. Weinper, 54, has already watched three aunts die of Alzheimer's disease. And now her mother is suffering from this terrifying illness that slowly destroys the brain and mind. "Because I know I'm at risk," Weinper says, "this insidious threat runs through every day of my life. To be trapped in your body but not be able to formulate words...
Nicandros had little success in pleading his case at the Departments of Energy and State. Senior Clinton adviser Mack McLarty finally told him point-blank two weeks ago that the Iranian project was almost certainly doomed. Acknowledging defeat, Nicandros asked only that the Administration issue an Executive Order that would at least make his defeat seem imposed...
Smoky Night, the story of a young boy burned out of his home by the L.A. riots, is almost totally nonjudgmental. One tenant does yell "hooligans," and mother does nod when the boy asks if televisions are being stolen. But perhaps the key moral passage is the rather blank "Mama explains about rioting. 'It can happen when people get angry...
...screen, syllable, when the language utters the words "physical" and "physiological." A rope creeps across nine screens while the voice drones on about the particularities of length and measurement. When Heidegger's text contradicts itself--"But space and time do not serve only as parameters"--the screens go blank. Then the images start rippling from left to right, change direction and slow down, as Heidegger winds his way through more of his convoluted ramblings. Then the voice stops. The images stop. Then they pick up again, together...